Israel stresses that the drone, which was reportedly armed with four missiles, was not shot down but suffered a technical malfunction. In 2015, a UAV of the same type fell off the coast of Tripoli, Lebanon
1/04/2018
|An Israeli drone has crashed in southern Lebanon, between the villages of Beit Yahoun and Baraachit, the Lebanese al-Manar TV reported on Saturday. The drone was later identified as a Hermes 450 unmanned aerial vehicle that had fallen with four missiles.
According to the report, a second Israeli aircraft then fired at the drone and destroyed it.
The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit confirmed that an unmanned aerial vehicle had fallen within Lebanon overnight, and credited it to a technical failure. The IDF said it is investigating the incident.
In 2015, a UAV of the same type fell off the coast of Tripoli in Lebanon. The drone was loaded onto a truck and apparently found its way to either Iran, China, or Russia for reverse engineering.